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Boy, snow, bird, a novel, Helen Oyeyemi

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Boy, snow, bird, a novel, Helen Oyeyemi

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Boy, snow, bird

Medium

playaway

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Oclc number

884980687

Responsibility statement

Helen Oyeyemi

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold

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